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- performance (Philip Jones)
- Change number of layers to 64 or 128 for vector performance
- Always loop vertically to nVertLevels, or multiples of 8, with a mask ("Strip-mining")
- reduce excessive diagnostics computations, other items, see: /wiki/spaces/OCNICE/pages/82673686
- analysis
- Continued work on analysis members and MPAS Analysis
- smooth automated implementation in ACME, working at high resolution.
- Sea-Level Rise Topic
- non-Boussinseq / TEOS-10 (Mark Petersen)
- needed for steric SLR
- expected for next generation ocean models
- wetting-drying / massless layers (Xylar Asay-Davis)
- needed for ocean / land-ice coupling, moving grounding line
- needed for coastal inundation
- high-order pressure gradient (Mark Petersen)
- mitigates errors associated with strongly sloped layer interfaces
- quasi-Lagrangian vertical coordinate (regridding/remapping, hybrid vertical coordinates) (Luke Van Roekel (Unlicensed))
- exploits a capability built into MPAS-Ocean
- should improve representation / preservation of water masses
- super-cycling of tracer transport
- needed to make BGC more computationally tractable
- Mesoscale eddy closure
- funded by SciDAC3, in code base, needed to be validated in global configurations
- thin-wall approach for bottom bathymetry
- a great idea that we never have time to implement
- improved vertical turbulence scheme (Luke Van Roekel (Unlicensed))
- needed to get beyond KPP
- prognostic SW penetration model (LV notes: mostly done already, just needs hooks to BGC)
- needed to improve ocean boundary layer representation
sea-ice (Adrian Turner)
- Improved snow model (Nicole Jeffery)
- Icebergs *(postdoc)
- Unified ridging and form drag (with Andrew Roberts, NPS?) (@Andrew Roberts)
- Improved radiation extinction in snow (SNCR)*
- MPAS-Seaice buoy simulator
- Improve salinity coupling between ocean and sea ice (postdoc)
- Remaining sea ice metrics for coupled simulations (2/9 completed) (Adrian Turner)
- Performance enhancements
- Concurrent halo exchanges (Philip Jones)
- Equatorial grid culling in coupler (Jon Wolfe)
- Concurrent halo exchanges (Philip Jones)
land-ice (Stephen Price)
- analysis and validation (standalone and coupled)
- mproved improved calving
- spin up initialization
- Sub-glacial hydrology and basal processes
- Spatially-temporally varying sea-level forcing at land ice front
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- Couple icebergs from land ice to sea ice via coupler (coordination with land ice, sea ice, ocean)
- time-variable footprint of land / ocean / sea-ice / atmosphere / land (- "dynamic fractions" (coordination with land ice, ocean, sea ice, land)
- finalization/testing of boundary layer melt scheme in coupler (migrate out of MPAS-Ocoordination with land ice and ocean)
- Subgrid downscaling for land SMB fields to high-res ice sheet grid (coordination with land ice, land)
- Self-attraction for regional SLR
- track coupler re-write
coastal ocean / coastal BGC (Phillip Wolfram (Unlicensed))
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